Tie-plate and rail-spacing device.



J. KLINKHAMMER.

TIE PLATE AND RAIL SPAOING DEVICE.

APPLICATION IILED we. a. 1909.

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TIE PLATE AND RAIL SPAOING DEVICE.

APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 5, 1909.

Patented Jan.4, 1910.

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TIE PLATE AND RAIL SPAOING DEVICE.

APPLICATION rn-nn AUG. 5, 1909.

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JOSEPH KLINKHAMMER, 0F HOPKINS, MINNESOTA.

TIE-PLATE AND RAIL-SPACING DEVICE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH KLINKHAM- MER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residin at Hopkins, in the county of I-Iennepin an State ofMinnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inTie-Plates and Rail-Spacing Devices; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

My invention has for its object to provide an improved tie plate andrail spacing device, and to this end, it consists of the novel devicesand combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in theclaims.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, likecharacters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan View, with some partsbroken away, showing the invention designed simply as a tie plate withrail clamping devices; Fig. 2 is a plan View showing the sameconstruction shown in Fig. 1, but with an added arrangement forpositively spacing rails apart; Fig. 3 is a plan view showing one memberof one of the supplemental sections of the improved tie plate; Fig. 4 isa vertical section taken on the irregular line m w of Fig. 3; Fig. 5 isa plan view, with some parts broken away, showing one of thesupplemental sections of one of the tie plates shown in Fig. 2 andshowing also a portion of the cooperating rail spacing bar; Fig. 6 is avertical section taken on the irregular line w w of Fig. 5; Fig. 7 is alan View of the device shown in Fig. 2, with the rails re moved and withsome parts sectioned and some parts broken away; and Fig. 8 is atransverse vertical section taken on the line 00 m of Fig. 2.

The rails are indicated by the numeral 1 and the ties by the numeral 2.

The tie plates are made in supplemental sections that are adapted to beinterlocked when applied between the ties and rails. In the constructionillustrated in Figs. 1, 3 and 4, each complete tie plate is made up oftwo supplemental sections or tie plates 3 having rall clamping flanges4. The rail clamping flanges 4 are adapted to overlap and rigidly holdthe foot flanges of the rails and they are provided with sharp edgedteeth 5 that Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 5, 1909.

Patented Jan. 4, 1910.

Serial No. 511,350.

are adapted to be forced into the edges of the foot flanges of the saidrails. These teeth 5, as best shown in Figs. 3 and 4, are located inchannels formed between the tie plates 8 and the overlying inturnedupper portions of the rail clamping flanges 4. Also it will be noted,particularly by reference to Fig. 3, that about one half of the saidrail clamping flanges 4 overlie the respective tic plates 3 and theother one-half thereof project beyond the same, so that when two tieplates are put together, the projecting portion of the one clampingflange 4 rests upon the body of the cooperating tie plate; and attentionis here called to the fact that in the construction illustrated in Figs.1, 3 and 4, the cooperating sup lemental tie plates are duplicates, theone for the other, so that they may be cast from the same pattern, andare a plied by turning the same with their rail 0 amping flangesprojecting in'opposite directions.

The projecting portions of the rail clamping flanges 4 are provided withoutwardly projecting horizontally extended webs 6 that lie in a planeimmediately above the plane of the connected tie plate 3; and these webs6 are provided with spike holes 7 shown as arranged in twolongitudinally alined pairs. The projecting ends of the tie plates 3 areprovided with spike holes 8, no one of which longitudinally alines withthe other, but each being located a different distance from the clampingflanges 4, for an important pur pose which will presently appear. Thesespike holes 8 are so arranged that when the two tie plates are puttogether, one of the holes 8 will aline transversely of the rails withone or the other of the spike holes 7 in the underlying web 6, but notwo of the said spike holes 8 will register with two of the overlyingspike holes 7 at the same time.

By reference to Fig. 1, it will be noted that spikes 9, one on each sideof the rail, are driven into the tie through alined perforations 7 and 8and that all the other spike holes 7 and S are set out of registrationto different extents. If, for instance, the tie plates be spreadtransversely of the rail onesiXteenth of an inch farther apart, anotherpair of spike holes 7 and S on each side of the rail will be broughtinto registration, and if they be spread one-eighth of an inch orthree-sixteenths of an inch in the same direction, other spike holeswill be brought into registration. This affords an extremely simple andhighly efficient means for adjusting the tie plates to the base flangeof rails of difierent width and for securing the same when properlyadjusted to the rails. Because of the very considerable extent or areaof the tie plates, but little pulling strain will be applied to thespike in service, and hence, two spikes, one on each side of the rail,will be found suflicient to firmly hold the rail to the tie.

To anchor the tie plates to the ties, they are preferably formed withdepending anchoring lugs or barbs 10 (see particularly Fig. 4:), whichare adapted to be pressed into the ties. To further assist ininterlocking the coiiperating supplemental tie plates, the tie platesections are provided at their abutting edges with projecting lock lugs11 and with lug receiving pockets 12. The pocket 12 of the one tie plateis adapted to receive the lug 11 of the other tie plate, and saidpockets 12, in a direction transversely of the rail, are long enough topermit the said lugs 11 first to be entered therein and the two platesthereafter moved transversely of the rail the distance required to causethe teeth 5 to be driven into the foot flanges of the rail.

The construction illustrated in Figs. 2 and 5 to 8, inclusive, is likethat illustrated in Figs. 1, 3 and 4., but has the following addedfeatures for positively spacing the rails, thereby especially adaptingit for use at curves, at switches and similar places in the track. Inthis construction, one of the tie plates 3, at one side of the tie, isprovided -with laterally spaced angular brackets 13 integrally casttherewith and constructed to closely fit the end of an angle iron tiebar 14:. By reference particularly to Fig. 6, it will be noted that thelower portions of the brackets 13 are arranged to embrace the downturnedflange of the angle iron bar 14, being provided with an "upturned innerflange 14 adapted to be clamped against the said angle iron, by a nuttedbolt 15. The bolt 15 is provided, adjacent to its head, with aneccentric portion 15 that is adapted to fit elongated perforations 14cof the flange 14 andthe de ending portion of each bracket 13 is provi edwith elongated perforations 14' that aline with the respectiveperforations 14 and through which the round stem of the bolt 15 isadapted to be passed. The

not register with the cooperatin erforations 14 at the same time and,hence, but one bolt 15 can be applied atone time to one of the sectionaltie. plates. One bolt 15 is, of

course, applied to each end of the spacing bar. When the eccentricportion 15 thereof is turned in one direction, one adjustment isaccomplished, when it is turned in the opposite direction anotheradjustment is accomplished, and by thus applying the bolt at differenttimes and in different perforations of the relatively fixed brackets 13,four different adjustments are provided for at each side of the track,making possible eight different adjustments transversely of the track,in the connections between the spacing bar and the tie plates.

It will, of course, be understood that various modifications oftheconstruction above described may be made within the spirit of myinvention. For instance, the relatively fixed brackets 13, instead ofbeing laterally spaced,'might be extended and united. In fact, as shownin Fig. 5, the inner flange 1 1 of the two brackets 13 is a singlemember.

Rails secured by the device above de scribed will be very securely heldboth against lateral rocking movements and against endwise creepingmovements, the latter movement being prevented by the engagement of theteeth 5 with the foot flanges thereof.

lVhat I claim is:

1. A tie plate made up of supplemental sections having overlapping partsformed with differentially spaced spike holes adapted to be brought intoregistration in different positions and said sections being providedwith rail clamping flanges and with teeth engageable with the footflanges of the rail to'hold said rail and prevent creeping thereof,substantially as described.

2. A tie plate made up of supplemental sections having overlapping partsformed with differentially spaced spike holes adapted to be brought intoregistration in different positions, substantially as described.

3. A tie plate made up of supplemental sections having rail clampingflanges and overlapping parts, the latter having both inside and outsideof the rail clamping flanges differentially spaced spike holes adaptedto be brought into registration under different adjustments of the saidsupplemental sections, substantially as described,

4. The combination with a pair of tie plates having rail clampingflanges and means for securing the same to the rails and to thetie, of aspacing bar, said spacing bar having round perforations and said tieplates having elongated perforations, and bolts having eccentricportions cooperating with the said round and elongated perforations forrigidly but adjustably connecting said bar to said tie plates.

5. The combination with a pair of tie plates having rail clampingflanges, means 945,172 Y Y a for securing the same co-the rails and tothe said bar. to said brackets, substantially as tie, and havingdepending brackets at one described. 7

side of the tie, of a spacing bar, said spacing bar having roundperforations and said brackets having elongated perforations, and

\ bolts having eccentric gortions cooperating 'with the said round an velongated perforations for rigidly but adjustably connecting in presence0 two wltnesses.

JOSEPH KLINKHAMMER. Witnesses:

HARRY B. DYER, W; R. ANDERSON.

In testimon whereof I afiix my signature

